Cultivator.



PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

LAWING,

GULTIVATOR.

APPLIUATION FILED O0T.23, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filad October 23, 1905- Serial No. 283,957.

To all whom, it may concern- Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. LAWING, acitizen of the United States of America, residing at Ozark, in thecounty of Christian and State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Cultivators, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to plows, and more particularly to a one-horsesulky-cultivator designed to work between two rows, utilizing one horseas a source of power for drawing the cultivator.

An object of this invention is to provide novel means for applying thedraft-rigging described in drawings as E, F, D, C, A, G, H, and S,complete to parts or any common cultivator making it a one-horsecultivator, means being provided to permit the ready manipulation of thecultivator with relation to thls draft-rigging.

Furthermore, an obj eot of this invention is, as shown, to providestay-chains connecting this draft-rigging and plow-beams in order thatundue movement of the cultivator may be prevented.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a sulky withnovel means for attach-' ing one horse thereto in front of the sulky andin the provision of novel means for adjuiitably connecting thecultivator to the su a With the foregoing and other objects in view theinvention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangementand combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth andclaimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accomanying drawin s, forming part of this speci ication, wherein ikecharacters denote corresponding parts in both views, in which- Figure 1is a plan view of the cultivator embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is aside elevation thereof.

In the drawings, A denotes an ordinary axle on which may be fitted anycommon cultivator wheel axle supported by the ground-wheel B. Beams 0are attached to the axle and have their outer ends converging andcontacting with a short tongue D, to

which the swingletree E is connected in any suitable manner through themedium of a link F. A clevis G is provided at each side of the sulky andis secured to the beams O and axle A through the medium of the bolt H,by which the several parts are clamped together. The plow-beams I fromany ordinary cultivator are connected to the clevises G, it beingunderstood that the bolts K are provided for connecting the straps J andclevises G. The position of the beams may be adjusted through the mediumof the a ertures L in the clevises, though ordinari y it would bedesirable to have the beams approximately ona plane with the beams C.

The cross beam or bar L is attached to the plow-beam by means of theclamps M, and said cross beam or bar has a series of shovels N connectedto it, using any ordinary cultivator beam, plows, and handles. As thespecific construction of the plow-beam, cross beam orbar, the handlesand the shovels, and means for attaching them to the crossbar forms nopart of the present invention, they will not be described in detail; butthe plow beams, handles, shovels, &c., are shown in the drawings for thepurpose of specifying how the ordinary plow-beams from a commoncultivator are attached to this onehorse sulky to accomplish the end forwhich this sulky is invented.

As a means for bracing the structure suitable stay-chains S extend fromthe axle to the plow-beams, said chains crossing each other intermediatetheir length. By this means a flexible connection is made between theaxle and the cultivator proper. The bolt on the end of the stay-chain atK, where the bolt goes through the axle, is a take-up bolt with threadednuts controlling the length of stay-chains S, making them longer orshorter, as may be required.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a cultivator of the character described, an axle, converging beamsattached thereto, clevises carried by the axle, bolts passing throughthe clevises, axle and converging beams to hold said beams and clevisesto the axle, a swingletree connected to the convergin ;the presence oftwo Witnesses, this 30th ing 1loeetrils, plow-beanis adjustablylsecfured day of September, 1905. to t1e c evises, stay-e lains eXtenc inr0111 the axle to the p10W-bean1s, cross-bars at- WILLIAM 5 teched tothe beams, and cultivator-shovels Witnesses:

carried by the cross-bars. S. E. BRONSON, In testimony whereof I affixmy signature, JEAN SAYLOR.

